Load Flow Simulation of Western Grid of Bangladesh Power System Using PSAT and Performance-Based Comparison with PowerWorld

Author

Ghosh, Shibani ; Saha, Avijit ; Mou, Nurunnahar Islam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

292

Lastpage

295

Abstract

This paper describes the load flow simulation studies of the Western grid of Bangladesh Power System using PSAT, a free and open-source software and compares the results with those from PowerWorld, a well-accepted and commercial software. The studied power system contains 41 buses and 82 interconnecting lines. To ground the basis of comparison, both of the applications were run in the same simulation environment with identical input data. For this system, an average difference of 1.7525% between the bus voltage magnitudes calculated by the two software packages was found and PowerWorld was 6.4 times faster than PSAT to complete the simulation.

Keywords

power engineering computing; power grids; power system simulation; public domain software; software packages; Bangladesh power system; PSAT; PowerWorld; bus voltage; free software; load flow simulation; open-source software; performance based comparison; simulation environment; software packages; western grid; Computational modeling; Load flow; Load flow analysis; Open source software; PSCAD; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Software packages; Software performance; load flow; pgcb; powerworld; psat;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation (ISMS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5984-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMS.2010.61

Filename

5416078